I have successfully added myself to the wheel group but 'su' nor 'kdesu' will work under KDE. I am able to login to root outside of KDE in a terminal, I am able to su from another user outside of the KDE in a terminal, but if I open up any konsole inside of KDE, su and KDE su will tell me incorrect password.

Not sure what to do, could it be a permissions problem?

Hope you guys can help. Thanks

To make sure.
You are correctly typing root's password for su?
Make sure caps lock is not on or if password was done with caps lock on.

Brian1

I'm a bit smarter than that :P

What version of Linux are you using?

And out of curiosity:
Do you have a special locale set, anything other than
en_US by any chance? If you type your password in
a full-screen terminal (and I mean just type, not using
it in an environment without echoing the chars), does
it look the same as in X?



Cheers,
Tink

I am using Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r6) with KDE 3.3.2.

The problem is with my Xorg because it doesn't work on any other desktop (tried twm).

I am using a generic us keyboard layout and I can type my password correctly in the console itself and I can see the chars echoed correctly. I'm confused and so is everyone in #gentoo on efnet :P

Thanks in advance if you're able to help!

There must have been a problem where it stores my password because I tried changing my password to an all text password (suggested by mee987 in #gentoo on irc.efnet.net) and then it worked. Then, just to test, I changed my password back to what it used to be and it works now.

I really hope this helps someone because I always see forum threads where people go 'I fixed it, nvm' and then I can never see how they fixed it. If you have the same problem, reply to this post so we can find the real source of the problem some day.

Thanks mee987!